Recruitment: Heritage Project Officer
We are excited to recruit for a passionate, empathetic, well-organised and resilient Heritage Project Officer to join our Policy and Public Affairs team at our Head Office in London, Islington.
We are interested in applications from candidates who are motivated and passionate about the rights of individuals faced with having to leave the UK, who understands the importance of capturing women’s voices and stories to ensure accurate historical representation and the value of Hibiscus’ heritage and has the ability to manage and direct key service delivery initiatives and projects within set timescales, and the knowledge and experience of working with in a research and heritage context.
As an organisation working on racial and gender justice and migrants’ rights Hibiscus is particularly keen to attract talent from Black and minoritised communities and those with lived experience of immigration restrictions, the criminal justice systems, and/or gender-based violence.
The successful candidate will develop and coordinate a year-long heritage project that celebrates Hibiscus’s 35th anniversary, establishes a legacy of our past, and helps shape our future work.
They will document Hibiscus’ heritage and create a timeline of the history of immigration and criminal justice policies and systems and their impact on black and migrant women, lead on collecting clients’ stories of immigration and connection with Hibiscus to create an Oral Histories series, and plan, develop and run a programme of events at our Women’s centre and other women’s centres and migrant centres in England in collaboration with a Hibiscus Client Project Team and colleagues.
We are committed to the wellbeing and development of our staff. We provide regular training and other learning opportunities and offer wellbeing classes and activities, clinical supervision, an Employee Assistance Program and other benefits to support staff wellbeing.
This post is restricted to women only as a genuine occupational requirement under Schedule 9 paragraph 1, Equality Act 2010.
Salary
£26 000 per annum (pro rata)
Team
Policy and Public Affairs
Duration
One year – fixed term
Hours
Part-time, 28 hours per week
Location
Hibiscus Head Office, London and national travel, as required for the role
Reporting to
Head of Policy and Public Affairs
Please download the Job Description below and carefully read through the information provided regarding the role and person specification:
2022 Heritage Project Officer Job Description
Please send the following to recruitment@hibiscus.org.uk
- An up-to-date CV (no more than 2 pages)
- A cover letter addressing relevant parts of the Person Specification in the Job Description outlining why you are the right person for the role (no more than 2 pages)
Equal Opportunities: Please download and complete the equality and diversity form to help us ensure our recruitment processes are fair and inlcusive. This form should be sent to us separately at recruitment@hibiscus.org.uk
Closing date
Midnight, Friday 6 May
Interviews
Week commencing 16 May
If we receive applications from more suitable candidates than we have vacancies for at this time, we may hold suitable applicants on a reserve list for 12 months, and future vacancies requiring the same skills and experience could be offered to candidates on the reserve list without a new competition.
If you do not want Hibiscus to retain your CV on file, please state so in your email when you send your CV and Cover Letter.